{"id":2652,"date":"2015-12-04T22:17:02","date_gmt":"2015-12-04T13:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2015-12-04\/2652"},"modified":"2015-12-04T22:17:02","modified_gmt":"2015-12-04T13:17:02","slug":"revisiting-fall-colors-kyoto-mountain-cycling-two-weeks-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2015-12-04\/2652","title":{"rendered":"Revisiting Fall Colors: Kyoto Mountain Cycling Two Weeks Ago"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
<\/a>\nPanasonic LX100 at an effective 25mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>80 sec, f<\/span>\/1.8, ISO 250 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nMeeting Up<\/span>\nin northern Kyoto\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n

Just a quick writeup with some pictures of a nice<\/span>\ngroup ride<\/a> that I did<\/span> two weeks ago with some of the stronger riders from Cycling Kyoto!<\/a>. I was by<\/span> far the newest, weakest, slowest, least\nexperienced among them, but they're a nice<\/span> fun group so they made me feel welcome.<\/p>\n\n

\u4eca\u56de<\/span>\u306e\u5199\u771f<\/span>\u306f\u4e8c\u9031\u9593\u524d<\/span>\u306e\u30b5\u30a4\u30af\u30ea\u30f3\u30b0\u306e\u4e8b\u3067\u3059\u3002<\/p>\n\n

<\/a>\nPanasonic LX100 at an effective 24mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>125 sec, f<\/span>\/2, ISO 200 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nA Serious<\/span> Group<\/span>\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nPanasonic LX100 at an effective 25mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>125 sec, f<\/span>\/2.5, ISO 200 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nTomas<\/span>\nfastest guy in the group\n( tied with 20 other folks for nicest guy in the group )\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n
<\/a>\nPanasonic LX100 at an effective 30mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>125 sec, f<\/span>\/2.2, ISO 320 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nVincent<\/span>\nwearing a ridiculously<\/i> high-viz yellow jacket that totally overpowers the camera sensor\n(This is the same Vincent recently seen doing my bike fitting<\/a>)\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nPanasonic LX100 at an effective 30mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>125 sec, f<\/span>\/2.2, ISO 200 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\ntaken while cycling at 32 kph (20 mph)\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nPanasonic LX100 at an effective 24mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>125 sec, f<\/span>\/1.7, ISO 320 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nJoshua and Vincent<\/span>\npower past an old house; taken while cycling at 12 kph (7 mph)\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nPanasonic LX100 at an effective 25mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>125 sec, f<\/span>\/1.8, ISO 800 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nThis Time With Autumn Colors<\/span>\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nPanasonic LX100 at an effective 25mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>125 sec, f<\/span>\/1.8, ISO 800 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nThis Time Out of Focus<\/span>\nso I did some “<\/span>artsy”<\/span> processing to see what I could<\/span> recover from it\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nPanasonic LX100 at an effective 24mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>125 sec, f<\/span>\/1.8, ISO 200 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nAndy and Christoph<\/span>\ntaken while cycling at 34 kph (21 mph)\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nPanasonic LX100 at an effective 44mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>125 sec, f<\/span>\/2.6, ISO 500 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nThe Gang's All Here<\/span>\ntaken while cycling at 39 kph (24 mph)\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nPanasonic LX100 at an effective 24mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>125 sec, f<\/span>\/3.5, ISO 200 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nI Guess<\/span> You Had To Be There<\/span>\nit was really quite pretty in real life\ntaken while cycling at 29 kph (18 mph)\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nPanasonic LX100 at an effective 24mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>125 sec, f<\/span>\/2.5, ISO 200 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nTomas and Andy<\/span>\ntaken while cycling at 35 kph (22 mph)\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nPanasonic LX100 at an effective 24mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>125 sec, f<\/span>\/2.5, ISO 200 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nI'm Not Sure What's Happening Here<\/span>\nphoto by Joshua Levine<\/span>\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nPanasonic LX100 at an effective 24mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>125 sec, f<\/span>\/3.5, ISO 200 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nAll Smiles<\/span>\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nPanasonic LX100 at an effective 24mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>125 sec, f<\/span>\/1.7, ISO 500 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nAll Serious<\/span>\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nPanasonic LX100 at an effective 24mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>125 sec, f<\/span>\/1.7, ISO 320 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nGutsy<\/span>\nTomas trying Andy's Insanely Steep<\/a> climb\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n

It was wet from a recent rain, so quite slippery.\nDiscretion is the better part of valor, so Tomas aborted the attempt. I didn't<\/span> even try. But as\nRick H had suggested<\/a>, I did measure<\/span> the slope\nwith the Compass Tool in my iPhone:<\/p>\n\n

<\/a>\nPanasonic LX100 at an effective 24mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>60 sec, f<\/span>\/1.7, ISO 250 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nNot So Bad!<\/strike>\nOh Yes It Is “<\/span>So Bad!”<\/span><\/span>\n\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nPanasonic LX100 at an effective 25mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>125 sec, f<\/span>\/2, ISO 200 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nColorful Christoph<\/span>\ntaken while cycling at 34 kph (21 mph)\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nPanasonic LX100 at an effective 25mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>125 sec, f<\/span>\/2.5, ISO 200 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nLess Color<\/span>\nbut more smile\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nPanasonic LX100 at an effective 25mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>125 sec, f<\/span>\/3.2, ISO 200 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nThree Muskateers<\/span>\nAntti seems to have regained his former stature\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nPanasonic LX100 at an effective 34mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>125 sec, f<\/span>\/2.3, ISO 320 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nFriendly Chat<\/span>\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nPanasonic LX100 at an effective 75mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>125 sec, f<\/span>\/2.8, ISO 250 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nApproaching the Top<\/span>\nHanase Pass (\u82b1\u80cc\u5ce0)\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nPanasonic LX100 at an effective 75mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>125 sec, f<\/span>\/2.8, ISO 320 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nFake “<\/span>Game Face”<\/span> Competition<\/span>\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nPanasonic LX100 at an effective 75mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>125 sec, f<\/span>\/2.8, ISO 400 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nToo Fast to Focus<\/span>\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n

Vincent and I live in the same general part of the city, so after the 80km ride we headed home together. We stopped<\/span> by Radio Bagel<\/a> for hot coffee and tasty carbohydrates. Yum.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just a quick writeup with some pictures of a nice group ride that I did two weeks ago with some of the stronger riders from Cycling Kyoto!. I was by far the newest, weakest, slowest, least experienced among them, but they're a nice fun group so they made me feel welcome.<\/p>

\u4eca\u56de\u306e\u5199\u771f\u306f\u4e8c\u9031\u9593\u524d\u306e\u30b5\u30a4\u30af\u30ea\u30f3\u30b0\u306e\u4e8b\u3067\u3059\u3002<\/p>

It was wet from a recent rain, so quite slippery. Discretion is the better part of valor, so Tomas aborted the attempt. I didn't even try. But as Rick H had suggested, I did measure the slope with the Compass Tool in my iPhone:<\/p>

UPDATE: I originally wrote [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,14,1,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2652"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}

UPDATE: I originally wrote that it looked<\/i> much steeper than the 21% “<\/span>Nasty”<\/span> hill<\/a>, but that it actually measured<\/i> less,\nand postulated that the discrepancy came from perhaps the perspective of being able to stand to its side and view it edge on.\nHowever Keven points out<\/a> that I mixed<\/span> up 20 degrees<\/i><\/b> (the angle measured) with 20 percent<\/i><\/b> (how slopes are rated). It turns<\/span> out that an angle of 20 degrees is the same as a slope<\/span> of 36 percent, which indeed is much more difficult than the 21% slope I used<\/span> as a reference.<\/span> What a sloppy<\/span> mistake on my part, and what a hill!<\/span> The iPhone<\/span> compass tool doesn't display slope percent. There are many apps out there that would, but I just<\/span> made\na simple<\/span> web-based slope tool<\/a> that'll get the job done next time I want<\/span> to measure.<\/p>\n\n